MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2262, 23 September 1914, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

■•WORK FOR THE WORKERS. (Reo. September 22, 6.40 p.m.) London, September 21. Tho King, has ordered extensive planting to be dono at Sandringham,< in order to diminish unemployment.— /["Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) PURGED BY WARFARE. (Rec. September 22, 6.40 p.m.\ London, September 21. Dr. Jowett, preaching at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, hoped that nnow Germany would bo emancipated from her; servitude to militarism, and that now Britain would be purified from her moral and spiritual indifference and trivolities.—("Times" • and Sydney ■"Sun" Services.) PRINCE ALBERT CONVALESCENT. (Rec. September, 22, 9.55 p.m.) London,' September 21. Prince Albeit, who underwent an operation for appendicitis, is now canyalescent. A WELSH AhMY CORPS. .' London, September 21. Mr. Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) is heading a movement to raise a complete Welsh Army Corps. GERMAN BARQUE CAPTURED. London, .September 21. 'A British warship captured the German barque'Toriape, 2318 tons. She was released after landing German reservists. BELATED CONCILIATION. Copenhagen, September 21. The' newspaper "Berliner Tagcblatt" 6ays the Germ an'policy in North Schleswig has liithorto.beon a great mistake. The new Governor (General Moltka) is expected to seek to conciliate the two nationalities there. Schleswig-Holstein was originally part of Denmark,' but was incorporated with Prussia, after the war of 1866., WHEAT SCARCE IN GERMANY. '- a "' \" -Rome, September 21. Wheat 'is increasingly scarce in Ger-1 many., ' '. ' \ ;; LOUVAIN' UNIVERSITY. • London, September. 21. Tho Senate of Cambridge University has offered Louvain University facilities ,fon continuing, its , work at -CambridgeI.''1 .'' ■ " < ' 'WEST INDIAN GIFTS. ' ' - ■""' London, September 21. The Port of 'Spam ((West" Indies) colony is giving £40,000 worth of cocoa, in addition io subscriptions already totalling £40,000. ■ ' 'MONTREAL'S FUND. ■'■■?." Ottawa, September 21. Montieal's patriotic fund is closed. !A million and a half dollars was collected in five days. MAILS DELIVERED. • London, September 21. The.Egypt's mails have been dehvfered; ' ■ A TEETOTAL WAR., EXCEPT ON THE GERMAN SIDE. '(Roc. September 23, 1.30 a.m.) London, September 21.' This is a teetotal-war so. far as tho 'Allies aie concerned, but the trail of tho Germans maiked by mjriads of empty bottles. '